Would you play a TTRPG that used Meters instead of Feet?

[TheSword]

They say two meters.

I don’t think they do, certainly not in the UK anyway! 6 foot, dark and handsome.

Not 182 cm, dark and handsome.

 

[kenada]

My homebrew system uses metric units, so I would.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That's it. I want an rpg with bushels and barleycorns!

I think we have one of our hooks for Halflings & Holes, everyone!

 

[Tonguez]

Is that in the USA?

No, antipodes

 

[Slit518]

Please switch us all to metric, by whatever means necessary.

Sorry, weight will still be in pounds. Heck, I may even do character height in feet and inches! Mix & match! Drive the player base nuts! The world map will still be measured in miles (though I have seen some games do miles and kilometers).

Wtf is a "fluid ounce" anyway? I'm not cooking with a calculator.

A fluid ounce is always the same volume no matter how dense the liquid. However, if it went by weight an ounce of tar would be less volume than an ounce of water.

Ounce of volume vs ounce of weight.

 

[DrunkonDuty]

I'm an Aussie born in 1970. I use metric. DnD has polluted me somewhat and I do sometimes find myself using "feet." ick. I feel like a primitive screwhead just saying it.

My system of choice is Hero (I know, we all already knew that.) It's metric. Hell, it uses hexes too. It's a real iconoclastic system. It's actually surprising that it was designed by Americans in the 1980s. But I believe they were a bunch of engineers.

In actual game play I just say the number of hexes or squares. (This is where Hero 6th ed. is good, 1 hex = 1 metre. So simple.)

But I could be convinced to try this new giraffe based measurement system.

 

[DrunkonDuty]

A fluid ounce is always the same volume no matter how dense the liquid. However, if it went by weight an ounce of tar would be less volume than an ounce of water.

Ounce of volume vs ounce of weight.

So... that's confusing. And where does this Wizard of oz. come into it anyway?

 

[Thomas Shey]

I've done so numerous times in the past. As I recall, Aftermath! used meters as did at least a couple of SF games.

 

[Tonguez]

So... that's confusing. And where does this Wizard of oz. come into it anyway?

Well Baum was likely using an ounce of something when he wrote it.

But oz is from the italian word Onza

 

[kigmatzomat]

In theory, yes. However 5 feet becomes 1.5m, which isn't that clean. You could change it to 1m, but that seems like a ridiculous small space for combatants to occupy, and increasing it to 2m conversely feels too big.

Realistically, a combatant could occupy a 1m square, but then he'd be able to strike over adjacent squares to hit things more than 1m away. (A typical one-handed sword can easily be 1m in length, even if you don't account for arm length)

Not sure why 2m (6.6ft) is a challenge while 5ft (1.5m) is just fine. Most people's reach is their height so lots of people are right there, without moving. Except most people will move around a bit, so +/- 1ft/0.3m side to side makes it 2m easy.

Now add a dagger (8"/0.2m). Or a 1m sword. And a shield. Wait, maybe 2m isn't enough...